Aug 29th, 2008 · Downtown St. Paul has been getting a facelift ahead of the Republican National Convention. This means filling vacant storefronts with high-end retailers on short term leases, recruiting street musicians though they're normally banned, bolting down trash bins and planters. There're even spray-painting the leaves green and feeding birth control to the pigeons.
Sep 26th, 2006 · Farming technology is big business. The latest developments -- smarter seed planters, bigger combines, advances in animal breeding -- are on display at Big Iron, a major agricultural trade show in Fargo, N.D.
Jan 17th, 2006 · Journalist, novelist and playwright Thulani Davis traces her roots in My Confederate Kinfolk: a Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots. Among the revelations Davis uncovered was that her ancestors include a Scots-Irish clan of cotton planters as well as Africans from Sierra Leone.